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Ben Fritz  
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 More options May 20 2012, 5:57 pm
From: Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 14:57:39 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, May 20 2012 5:57 pm
Subject: Re: Help with user defined command
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On Saturday, May 19, 2012 4:54:40 PM UTC-5, howardb21 wrote:

> I tried it and it did not seem to work. Personal taste wise - the
> split function and printf seemed like overkill - I thought there
> should be a simpler way. And the
> special form of ab <expr> string expression seems made to order for
> what I was after. That is why I wanted to just use this command, but
> in a simpler form.

What do mean by "it doesn't work"? What did it do instead of creating the desired abbreviation? As for a simpler way, did you try using the same approach but using <f-args> instead of all the split stuff? If so, what EXACT commands did you use? We cannot help without more detail about what went wrong.

 
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